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  Speaker 1: What if a quiet and unassuming man could hide a
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  Speaker 1: very dark, dark secret? A trail of disappearances stretching over decades. Crime, conspiracy, cults,
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  Speaker 1: serial killers, and murder.
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  Speaker 2: today we are talking about Gary Bridgeway aka the Green
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  Speaker 2: River Killer. And the Green River Killer is quite literally
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  Speaker 2: one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
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  Speaker 1: His confirmed kill count is large but his unconfirmed kill
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  Speaker 1: count is even larger. And he is a very very
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  Speaker 1: sick individual because he relishes in the fact that all
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  Speaker 1: his victims will never be found. So without further ado,
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  Speaker 1: So Gary was born in post-war America in the crossroads
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  Speaker 1: of the West, AKA Salt Lake City, Utah. And it
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  Speaker 1: was 1949 and America was experiencing an economic boom following
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  Speaker 1: the victory. over Nazi Germany. And it was an era
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  Speaker 1: of optimism for families that had struggled through the Great Depression.
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  Speaker 3: The hand of civilization has changed the scene from desert
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  Speaker 3: to habitation and to streamlined structures of a modern era.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful Salt Lake City has become the scenic and industrial
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  Speaker 3: center of the Intermountain West.
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City was largely conservative and rooted in religious values.
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  Speaker 1: The area had been settled by Mormons who had traveled
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  Speaker 1: west on the Mormon Trail. I played the Oregon Trail
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  Speaker 1: as a kid, not the Mormon Trail. What would the
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  Speaker 1: Mormon Trail game be? Just like going around collecting... underaged
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  Speaker 1: wives and impregnating them before they can escape. That's rude.
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  Speaker 1: Can I say that? Probably not. I didn't mean it.
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  Speaker 1: So when World War II ended and men returned home,
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  Speaker 1: the women who had joined the workforce to fill roles
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  Speaker 1: left by the men who went to go fight the
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  Speaker 1: war were encouraged and even pressured to return back to
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  Speaker 1: domestic life. And that is where we Fucked up, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Workin' sucks. Because post-war America celebrated the nuclear family. Fathers
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  Speaker 1: were expected to be the breadwinners and embody a sense
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  Speaker 1: of authority. And Gary's father, Thomas Newton Ridgway, was a
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  Speaker 1: bus driver. And women were expected to care for the
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  Speaker 1: home and the children. Though it was becoming more common
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  Speaker 1: for women to work nationwide at this point. And Gary's mother,
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  Speaker 1: Mary Rita Rid- Rid- I always want to say Ridgway.
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  Speaker 1: Mary Rita Ridgway was part of a minority of women
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  Speaker 1: in the workforce. She worked in retail, but the challenges
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  Speaker 1: of balancing work and the burden of household duties and
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  Speaker 1: raising children must have been difficult for her, as we
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  Speaker 1: will start to see. But despite having two forms of
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  Speaker 1: income and an era of prosperity, life could still be
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  Speaker 1: trying at these times. There was a significant household shortage
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  Speaker 1: as veterans returning home created surge in demand. And so
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  Speaker 1: many families struggled to find affordable housing at this time,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Salt Lake City, which was sandwiched in a
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  Speaker 1: mountain valley with the Wasatch Mountains to the east and
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  Speaker 1: north and the Okurr Mountains to the west. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: not how you say it, but it's spelt O-Q-U I-R-R-H. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: this limited the room for expansion. And blue-collar families like
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  Speaker 1: Ridgway's had limited options, often living in cramped and outdated
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  Speaker 1: apartments not included for long-term family life. And the Housing
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  Speaker 1: Act of 1949 sought to address this housing shortage with
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  Speaker 1: federal funding, aiming to clear slums and redevelop urban areas
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  Speaker 1: with modern and affordable housing, though it often displaced low-income
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  Speaker 1: families without providing sufficient replacements. It was a bad, It
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  Speaker 1: was a shit time to be alive. And due to
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  Speaker 1: these economic limitations and the fierce competition for adequate housing,
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  Speaker 1: the Ridgeways relocated to the suburban area south of Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: And being near SeaTac, AKA Seattle-Tacoma Airport, there were plenty
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  Speaker 1: of employment opportunities in the transportation and service industries, perfect
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  Speaker 1: for Gary's parents. But despite these opportunities, the stresses of
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  Speaker 1: balancing work and home life affected Gary's treatment by his
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  Speaker 1: parents and his childhood, was seemingly quite troubled to say
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  Speaker 1: the least. And based on what we learn in later
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  Speaker 1: interviews and interrogations, it would seem as though Gary's mother, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: was abusive towards Gary as a child. And his father
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  Speaker 1: wasn't around much, he worked for the most part, so
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  Speaker 1: Mary was in complete control. And she was allegedly very
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  Speaker 1: domineering and degrading to him. And despite his best efforts,
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  Speaker 1: she picked on him for not doing well in school
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 4: What did you want to do to your mom here?
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  Speaker 5: I wanted her to stop being angry at me for
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  Speaker 5: not knowing how to.
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  Speaker 1: But she wasn't stopping.
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  Speaker 5: No, she wasn't stopping.
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  Speaker 1: Was she? No.
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  Speaker 5: She kept picking on you.
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  Speaker 1: She kept picking on you.
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  Speaker 3: Belittling you. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Embarrassing you. I mean, that's pretty clear from yesterday. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: It happened in school, too.
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  Speaker 1: She sounds like a fucking bully. is what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: And this is kind of where Gary would begin to
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  Speaker 1: have very twisted ideas regarding his mother. He would have
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  Speaker 1: multiple different fantasies of drastically different kinds, all of which
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  Speaker 1: were horrifyingly disturbed. Gary had his sensual fantasies about his mother,
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  Speaker 1: for example. As early as 14 or 15 years old,
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  Speaker 1: Gary would begin to think about having intercourse with his
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  Speaker 1: mom after watching her son bathe, and she aroused him
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  Speaker 1: because she would come home from work and go to
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  Speaker 1: the backyard to tan.
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  Speaker 4: I'd see her out sunbathing and I feel that she,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Good.
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  Speaker 5: To have some with.
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  Speaker 1: But the fantasy was likely spurred by sejual confusion resulting
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  Speaker 1: from her. On the one hand, belittling him, and on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, when he'd wet his bed into his teens.
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  Speaker 1: And after he did, his mother would wash his genitals
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  Speaker 1: for him. And like getting into those later years, like
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  Speaker 1: I get it if you're a kid, but my lord,
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  Speaker 1: at 13, 14, that's getting a little weird. It's getting
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  Speaker 1: a little weird, mom. And psychologists believe that this was
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  Speaker 1: only the tip of the iceberg and likely only the
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  Speaker 1: one part of a larger pattern of sejual contact between
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  Speaker 1: the two. And they would also say that this would
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  Speaker 1: humiliate Gary and likely turn into more rage directed at Mary.
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  Speaker 1: And Gary apparently just wanted his mom to stop picking
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  Speaker 1: on him and eventually his fantasies would twist from having
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  Speaker 1: sejual intercourse with his mother to murdering her. And I
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  Speaker 1: can't help but think of Ed Kemper in this scenario,
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  Speaker 1: which if you want me to do a deep dive
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  Speaker 1: on Ed Kemper, I'd be more than happy to. But
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  Speaker 1: my God, talk about mommy issues, man. He killed women
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  Speaker 1: just because he would look at them and think of
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  Speaker 1: his mom, and then he ended up killing his mom.
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  Speaker 1: Cutting off her head and just doing stuff to it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it. But anyway, he
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  Speaker 1: thought of hurting her in the past, explicitly mentioning fourth grade.
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  Speaker 1: But this was an escalation of those desires. The sensual
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  Speaker 1: feelings wouldn't go away entirely and it would become like
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  Speaker 1: a Jekyll and Hyde situation where there are two desires
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  Speaker 1: in him fighting each other, basically.
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  Speaker 5: When she's down there, she's a fantasy object. When she's
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  Speaker 5: up there, trying to get me to read, and she's
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  Speaker 5: the other side of.
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  Speaker 1: His urges were the first signs that something was deeply
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  Speaker 1: wrong with Gary, and he would take out his sejual
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  Speaker 1: and violent frustrations in other ways. And it started with
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  Speaker 1: him throwing rocks at windows and breaking them, and it
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  Speaker 1: would progressively worsen over time. He would graduate from throwing
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  Speaker 1: rocks at windows to throwing rocks at his brother. And
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  Speaker 1: then he'd begin doing another thing that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: serial killers do, and that is killing animals. He would
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  Speaker 1: start killing animals. He loved killing birds. He killed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them. And he also suffocated a cat and
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  Speaker 1: shot puppies to hurt them. He's also gorilla gripping this
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  Speaker 1: cat in this photo right here. And it's like, I've
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  Speaker 1: never wanted to like pop a kid in the head
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  Speaker 1: with a fist so much in my life. But it
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  Speaker 1: would escalate even further when he stabbed a kid with
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  Speaker 1: a knife when he was 15 or 16. And the
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  Speaker 1: victim of the stabbing didn't die, thankfully. But Gary stabbed
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  Speaker 1: him just to see how stabbing worked because he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to stab His mom. And he would always think about
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  Speaker 1: stabbing her in the chest, in the heart, and cutting
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  Speaker 1: up her face specifically. And somehow, by either a miracle
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  Speaker 1: or a curse, Gary made it through high school and
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  Speaker 1: graduated in 1969 at 20 years old. And he even
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  Speaker 1: married his 19-year-old girlfriend, Claudia Craig Barrows, before joining the
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  Speaker 1: Navy and going to Vietnam. And his military service isn't
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  Speaker 1: notable or relevant to the story, really. He worked on
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  Speaker 1: a supply ship and saw combat while transporting supplies upriver.
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  Speaker 1: And during his service, when he wasn't aboard the ship
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  Speaker 1: and had some time on land, he became fixated on
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  Speaker 1: Ladies of the Night, a.k.a. I can't say that word
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. So I'm gonna call them Ladies of the Night.
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  Speaker 1: And Ladies of the Night would soon become his favorite
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  Speaker 1: target for killings. But at this time in Vietnam, he
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed their company and their talents. And he was still
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  Speaker 1: married to Claudia at the time, so he's already a
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  Speaker 1: piece of shit, as we know. And their marriage soon collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: She dodged a bullet, though, so whatever. And Gary would
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  Speaker 1: marry a total of three times. He married his second wife,
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  Speaker 1: Marcia Loreen Brown, a year after divorcing Claudia. Guy moves
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  Speaker 1: on quick, all right? And though they had a son together, Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: Gary and Marcia would divorce in 1981. And Gary and
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  Speaker 1: his third wife, Judith, married in 1988, so.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit further time frame there from remarrying. All
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  Speaker 1: while Gary's sensual fantasies would never fade. If anything, they
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  Speaker 1: were channeled into new fetishes or kinks. And two ex-spouses
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  Speaker 1: and two ex-girlfriends alleged that he loved to have intercourse outdoors,
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  Speaker 1: on camping or hiking trips, and sometimes would push for
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  Speaker 1: intercourse up to three times a day. And Gary seemingly
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  Speaker 1: never gave up on hiring ladies of the night, at
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  Speaker 1: least in the first two marriages, as in 1980. He
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  Speaker 1: had been arrested for choking a lady of the night,
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  Speaker 1: but was never charged after claiming she'd bitten him first.
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  Speaker 1: And he'd continue his pattern of infidelity and supposedly had
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  Speaker 1: been very violent towards Marcia, leading to their eventual divorce.
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  Speaker 1: And in 1982, he was arrested for soliciting a lady
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  Speaker 1: of the night. And it's believed that shortly after this,
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  Speaker 1: he did begin killing. All while having a family and
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  Speaker 1: working a regular job as a truck painter. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get into the murders. In the summer of 1982, five
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  Speaker 1: bodies of young women would appear in or near the
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  Speaker 1: Grain River in King County, Washington. And based on the
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  Speaker 1: evidence that was found at the crime scene and the
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  Speaker 1: locations of the bodies, it became very evident to investigators
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  Speaker 1: that they did have a serial killer on their hands.
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  Speaker 1: And over the next few years, they would work hard
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  Speaker 1: gathering evidence, photos, and following leads in hope of catching
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  Speaker 1: this And here are the five victims in order. The
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  Speaker 1: first one was Wendy Lee Caulfield. And at the time
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  Speaker 1: of her death, Wendy was 16 years old and last
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  Speaker 1: seen on July 8th in 1982 in Tacoma, Washington. And
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  Speaker 1: her body was discovered underneath the Peck Bridge by two
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  Speaker 1: boys riding on their bikes across the bridge floating in
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  Speaker 1: the Green River near Kent, Washington. And her cause of
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  Speaker 1: death was strangulation using her own clothes. And the next
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  Speaker 1: victim was Deborah Lynn Bonner. She went missing in July 15th, 1982,
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  Speaker 1: and she was 23 years old. She was last seen
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  Speaker 1: at SeaTac Airport in SeaTac, Washington, and her body was
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  Speaker 1: seen floating in the Green River near Kent, Washington as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important to note that her body was found
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  Speaker 1: in close proximity to the meat packing plant that Gary
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  Speaker 1: worked at. How convenient. And victim number three was Marcia
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  Speaker 1: Faye Chapman. And Marcia was last seen leaving her home
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  Speaker 1: at SeaTac, Washington on August 1st, 1982. And her body
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  Speaker 1: was recovered from the Green River on August 15th, 1982. Near,
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  Speaker 1: you guessed it, Kent, Washington. See a pattern here? We're
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  Speaker 1: getting serial with it right now. And she would be
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  Speaker 1: 31 years old at the time. And her cause of
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  Speaker 1: death was also strangulation. And the fourth victim would be
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  Speaker 1: Opal Charmaine Mills. And her family reported to the police
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  Speaker 1: that they last spoke to her on August 12th, 1982.
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  Speaker 1: And she would make a call from 194th Street and
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Highway South in Sea-Tac. And her body would also
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  Speaker 1: be pulled out of the Green River in Kent, Washington
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  Speaker 1: on August 15th. 1982. And she would only be 16
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  Speaker 1: years old at the time of her death.
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  Speaker 4: Like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I fucking hate him. I fucking hate him. And
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  Speaker 1: there was actually a sixth victim found in the Green River,
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  Speaker 1: except she was dumped much later. And that was Tracy Winston,
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  Speaker 1: who was 19 at the time. And she was last
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  Speaker 1: seen on September 12th. 1983 at 6 p.m. at Northgate Mall.
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  Speaker 1: And her body was discovered one mile from the bridge
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  Speaker 1: that Wendy Lee Caulfield was found under. And if we
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  Speaker 1: look at the reports of where the bodies were found
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  Speaker 1: near the Green River near Kent, all of these women
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  Speaker 1: were taken from SeaTac, specifically along the Pacific Highway South,
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  Speaker 1: and are mostly young women. The highway does run through Tacoma,
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  Speaker 1: so that ties in the first victim found. The police
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  Speaker 1: also found all the bodies within the same timeframe, so
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to say whether or not they were murdered
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  Speaker 1: at the same time or if they were discovered at
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  Speaker 1: the same time without seeing the autopsy reports. Nevertheless, there
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  Speaker 1: was a monster living in the greater Seattle area. And
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  Speaker 1: little did investigators know that Gary Ridgeway was lurking right
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  Speaker 1: beneath their noses. And the next set of victims were
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  Speaker 1: found nearby where the first set of victims were abducted.
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  Speaker 1: The SeaTac Airport and the Taiyi Golf Course or close
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  Speaker 1: to each other and near Pacific Highway South. And their
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  Speaker 1: names were Giselle A. LaVorn at age 19. She would
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  Speaker 1: be discovered on September 25th, 1982 in the woods of
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  Speaker 1: South 200th Street and 18th Avenue South in Seattle. And
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  Speaker 1: she was last seen in Normandy Park on July 17th, 1982.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important to note that Normandy Park was sandwiched
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  Speaker 1: between SeaTac Airport and the Green River, right where the
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  Speaker 1: previous victims were abducted and dumped. And before she disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: Giselle had beautiful blonde hair, but when her body was discovered,
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  Speaker 1: it appeared her hair had been dyed black. for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: And the next victim would be Constance Neon. And Constance
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  Speaker 1: would be last seen on June 8th, 1983 at 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: at near South 188th Street and Pacific Highway South, leaving
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  Speaker 1: her friend's house. And she was last seen by her
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend saying that she was picking up her check at
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  Speaker 1: her job and would see him in about 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Her car would be later found parked at South 188th
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  Speaker 1: Street and Pacific Highway South. And on October 27th, 1983,
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  Speaker 1: her body would be discovered on a vacant lot, and
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  Speaker 1: she would only be 21 at her time of death.
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  Speaker 1: And the next victim would be Kelly Ware. She would
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  Speaker 1: be last seen on July 17th, 1983, And she was
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  Speaker 1: last seen at a bus stop at 22nd Avenue East
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  Speaker 1: and East Madison Street. And just four months later, her
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  Speaker 1: body would be recovered on October 29th, 1983 in the
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  Speaker 1: 2500 block of South 192nd Street. And she would be
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  Speaker 1: only 22 years old at her time of death. So
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  Speaker 1: all these murders are like in such compacted timeframes from
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  Speaker 1: the first set to the second set. It's like he
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  Speaker 1: just went on a And the next victim would be
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  Speaker 1: Mary Bridget Meehan. The Western Six Motel would be the
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  Speaker 1: last place the 19-year-old Mary was seen alive on September 15th.
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  Speaker 1: 1982 at about 8.30 p.m. While she was just out
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  Speaker 1: for a walk. And a few months later, her body
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  Speaker 1: would be discovered on November 13th, 1983 at South 192nd
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  Speaker 1: Street and 27th Avenue South. So again, just really close proximity.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And there would still be a few more victims after
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: this to show up. One of which being Andrea M. Childers.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Andrea was 17 years old at the time of her disappearance,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and she was last seen at a bus stop on
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: 21st Avenue and Union Street on April 14th, 1983, at
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: about 12 p.m. And she would be eight months pregnant
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: at the time. And it would take over six years
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: for investigators to discover her body in the woods near
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: South 190th Street and 24th Avenue South on October 19th, 1989. Just... Oh,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: it's just heartbreaking. Like eight months pregnant. I just like,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: there's just a special, not even special, just a grimy fucking,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: just nail covered fucking thing. throne that is sitting in
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: hell for Gary Ridgeway, and I just, I just... Yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and this is when another dumping ground would be found,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and it was found near baseball fields just north of
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the SeaTac airport. And Shonda Leah Summers, Cheryl Lee Wims,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and an unidentified corpse would all be found here. Shonda
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was only 17 years old, Cheryl was only 18, and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: would disappear on her birthday. Cheryl's sister would also go
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: missing on the exact same day and she would remain missing,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: which is just heartbreaking. So you have to think like,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: was it Gary as well? I don't know. and then
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the unidentified corpse of a white female between the ages
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of 14 to 18 years old would also be found
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: behind the ballpark at South 146th Street and 16th Avenue South.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And police were probably thinking that they had some time
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to work with, believing that no more bodies would appear. However,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: they were about to find even more, but this time
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: inside a residential neighborhood. Star Lake was originally a small
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: natural lake, but it was enhanced and expanded over time
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: with modifications to support residential development around the area. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it is also in close proximity to Pacific Highway South
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: where the other victims were found. So from 1983 to 1985,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the bodies of six women were discovered along Star Lake Road.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a very scenic road just south of Star Lake. And
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: here is the order in which the bodies were discovered.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: There was Gail Matthews. She was last seen on April 10th,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: 1983 on Pacific Highway South at around 6 p.m. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: her body would be discovered along Star Lake Road on
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: September 18th. 1983 and she would be only 23 years
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: old at the time of her death. And it was
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: reported that she had entered a truck along Pacific Highway
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: South and was never seen again. And next there was
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Dolores Laverne Williams. Dolores was only 17 years old at
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the time of her disappearance and was last seen near
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a bus stop similar to the others. at Red Lion
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Inn on Pacific Highway South in March of 1983. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: on March 31st, 1984, her body would be discovered in
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the intersection of South 53rd Street and Starlight Road. And
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: she was identified through dental records. And the next victim
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: would be Terry Renee Milligan. On August 29th, 1982, Terry
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: would disappear on Pacific Highway South. as well. And her
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: body would appear on April 1st, 1984, two years and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: one day after she initially disappeared. And she would only
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: be 16 at the time of her death. And Terry
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: had lived a very hard life up until her disappearance.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: She had gotten pregnant in middle school and her family
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: disowned her. And she was forced to quit school at
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a very young age and even move in with her
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: boyfriend at a hotel. And Gary admitted to killing her
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: in November of 2003. And the next victim would be
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Sandy K. Gabbert. And on April 17th, 1983, at the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: age of 17, Sandra would be last seen on South
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: 142nd Street and Pacific Highway South. And 11 months later,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: on April 2nd, 1984, her body would be recovered at
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Star Lake Road and 55th Avenue South in an isolated spot.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And next is Alma Smith disappearing on March 3rd, 1983
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: on Pacific Highway South and would be recovered April 2nd,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: 1984 on Star Lake Road. And Gary even claimed that
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: he took Alma to his home and strangled her there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And the next would be Carrie Ann Royce and she
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: would be missing for two years. Carrie was last seen
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: on May 13th, 1983, and was rediscovered on March 10th, 1985.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And her body was dumped in a swamp just off
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of Star Lake Road. And she would be only 15
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: years old. at the time of her death. And from
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: 1883 to 1985, Gary moved to dumping locations, but he
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: kept the abduction area the same. He was likely picking
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: these women up off the side of the highway, offering
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: them rides, or maybe even kidnapping them in broad daylight
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and then killing them and then dumping them in different locations.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But from these new victims, it was very clear that
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he targeted teenage women. However, as we have come to learn,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Ridgway was not dumping bodies in one spot. He had
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: spots literally all over the city. And it became even
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: more clear that he wasn't just killing or abducting one
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: at a time. He had to have been doing it
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: repeatedly every week or even multiple times a day. And
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: this is when a new dumping ground would be found
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: along Highway 18 and I-90. And the victims that would
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: be found there were Tina Marie Thompson, who was last
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: seen along the Pacific Highway South as well on July 25th, 1983.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: And her body would be found April 20th, 1984, near
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Highway 18. And next would be Maureen Sue Feeney. And
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Maureen was last seen September 23rd, 1983, between 5 and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: 6 p.m. at 1515 East Madison Street in Seattle. And
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: her body was also discovered along Highway 18 on May 2nd, 1986.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And she would only be 19 years old. And the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: next victim would be Cindy Ann Smith. On June 29th, 1987,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the partially decayed remains of the 17-year-old Cindy were discovered
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: by three young boys near Green River Community College, about
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: 15 miles south of where she originally disappeared on March 21st,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: 1984 at around 5 p.m. hitchhiking. Never hitchhike. And the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: next victim where these bodies were dumped was Patricia Barzak.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: October 11th, 1986, the 19-year-old Patricia was last seen on
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: South 139th Street and Pacific Highway South. And her body
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: would be found along Highway 18 as well, near Seattle
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: International Raceway on February 3rd, 1993, almost seven years after
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: she disappeared. And the next set of victims were discovered
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: near exit 38 and I-90 from 1984 to 1986. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: exit 38 on Interstate 90 in Washington State is located
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: near North Bend, approximately 38 miles east of Seattle. And
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: this area is extremely remote and far away from civilization.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And most people who take this exit are using it
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to access national parks and hiking trails. And these women
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: were murdered around the same time that the women at
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Star Lake were being killed and abducted. So he's literally
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: killing women in one spot, dumping their bodies in this
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: other spot, and then abducting women from the same spot
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and dumping their bodies in a completely different spot. So
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: he's like, he has this whole system and nobody's catching
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: on at this point. fucking insane and the victim list
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: just keeps growing and growing and growing like in researching
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: it and looking it up like you see the number
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but then you start to read when they went missing
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and how they went missing and when their bodies were
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: found and who they were it's just like it's unbelievable
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like truly but the victims that were found in this
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: specific spot were Delise Louise Plager who was only 22
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: at the time and she was last seen on October
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: 30th 1983 at 3pm at a bus stop and she
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: would be found on February 14th, 1983, right next to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Exit 38. And next is Lisa L. Yates, and on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: March 13th, 1983, the 21-year-old Lisa would be discovered near
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Exit 38 as well. And the next victim is Kimberly Nelson.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: She would only be 20 years old, and she would
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: be last seen at the Ben Carroll Motel on Pacific
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Highway South at a nearby bus stop on November 1st, 1983,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: around 11 p.m. And she would be missing for two
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and a half years and partial skeletal remains would be
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: rediscovered three miles from exit 38 on forest back road.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: on June 13th, 1986. And by this point, the local
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and state police had a real problem on their hands, obviously.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Gary was now moving out of Seattle, and who knows
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: how long it was until they moved farther west, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: maybe even out of state. But it seems as time passes,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: more dump sites will be discovered. Because along Highway 410,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: near Enumclaw, Washington, roughly 40 miles south of Seattle, the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: body of Debbie Mae Abernathy, was found. She would be
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: last seen on September 5th, 1983, and she was only
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: 26 years old. And she would be found March 31st, 1984.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And the other victims that were found near Highway 410
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: were Mary Sue Bellow and Martina T. authority. Mary was
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: only 25 and Martina was only 18. And some of
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the bodies found at the site were dumped much later,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: similar to the Green River dump site. Like Marta Reeves,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: on March 5th, 1990, Marta would call her husband for
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the final time. Her body would be recovered on September 20th,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: at the end of the logging road between mile markers
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: 33 and 34 off Highway 410. And sometime during February
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of 1987, Roberta Hayes completely disappeared. She had a troubled
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: life and was even featured in the 1984 documentary called streetwise,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: highlighting homeless teenagers on the streets of Seattle. And she
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: was arrested and released by Portland police and was believed
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to have been picked up by Ridgeway on her way
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: back to Seattle. And three and a half years later,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: her skeletal remains were discovered at the end of a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: dirt road near mile marker 36 and a half near
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: highway 410. on September 11th, 1991. And Pavi Event was
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: also found near Highway 14 as well. She was only
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: 16 years old and was discovered on August 16th, 2003.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: And it was clear that Gary was actively thinking about
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: where he was gonna dump his bodies. He was very,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: very calculated to ensure that he would never get caught.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And this became very evident with his next set of victims.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Denise D. Bush was last seen October 8th, 1982 at
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: 1230 PM at the Moonrise Hotel at South 144th Street,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and Pacific Highway South. And she was only 23 years old.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And Shirley Marie Sherrill, age 19, was last seen in
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Chinatown eating lunch with a friend in Seattle. October or
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: early November of 1982. And her body was found June 14th,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: 1985 in Tigard, Oregon. Again, 200 miles away from where
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: she was last seen. So he's going out of his
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: way to make sure that he does not get caught.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: He is such a fucking monster. Like he had to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: be thinking about this 24 seven. Eventually it was discovered
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that Ridgeway was just dumping bodies all over the state
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of Washington. He had so many spots all across the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: county that police investigators were searching every nook and cranny
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: believing there could be a body there, because there very
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: well could be. And so far there have been nine
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: victims found in various spots all across King County specifically.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Linda Jane Rule, last seen near the Seals Motel on
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Aurora Avenue South in Seattle, September 26th, 1982. Her body
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: was found on a campus of Northwest Hospital on January 31st,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: 1983 at only 16 years old. Carol Ann Christensen at
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: age 29 was last seen at Barn Door Tavern on
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: May 3rd, 1983 near Pacific Highway South, of course. And
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: she was planning on returning to a tavern for an
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: evening shift after stopping home to see her daughter and husband.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And on May 8th, 1983, her body would be found
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in the woods by a family mushroom hunting near Southeast
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: 242nd Street and 248th Avenue Southeast in Maple Valley area
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of King County. And she had been strangled with a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: bag over her head and she was partially submerged in
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: shallow water and her clothes were put back onto her
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: body backward. And she would also have one shoe on
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the wrong foot and the other one missing completely. And
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: she had a raw sausage wrapped around her a wine
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: bottle in her hand and two gutted fish neatly placed
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: over her chest. You have to just think that he's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: just like expecting people to find her and just screwing
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: with them in a sick, sick way. Like, I don't
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: know at this point, I don't know. It's just like horrifying.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And next was Yvonne Shelley Antosh. She was last seen
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: at the Ben Carroll Motel on Pacific Highway South on
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: May 31st, 1983, around 11 p.m. And five months later,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: on October 15th, 1983, her body would be discovered on
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Auburn Black Diamond Road, a wooded suburb east of where
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: she disappeared. She would be only 19 years old. Next
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: would be Colleen Renee Brockman on May 26th, 1984, a
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: 15 year old Colleen would be found on Jovita Boulevard
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: in Pierce County, Washington. And the next victim is Maria
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Exeta West, who on February 6th, 1984 was last seen
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: walking around Rainier Avenue South. And on September 8th, 1985,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: someone spotted and reported a body. leaning against a tree
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in the backwoods of Seward Park, Seattle. And it was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: later identified that she was only 16 years old. But
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: like at this point, he's just placing them to be found.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Like he is being meticulous in where he's putting them,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but like they're being found. So it's, I don't know.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And Patricia Ann Yellow Robe originally ruled as an overdose.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Patricia was last seen sometime in January of 1998. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: her body would be discovered just off Des Moines Way
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: South in a vacant lot. And during his trial, Ridgeway
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: would admit to murdering her. And next would be April Buttram.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: She was last seen when she actually spoke to police
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: in August of 1983. And her remains would be found
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: on August 30th and September 2nd, 2003. In a wooded
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: area near Snoqualmie, about 26 miles east of Seattle. By
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: searchers sifting dirt through screens. And next would be Mary
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Jane Molina Marie Malver. On April 30th, 1983, Marie was
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: last spotted at an intersection of South 216th and Pacific
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Highway South. And her boyfriend saw her actually getting into
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a truck and feeling that something was off, tried to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: follow the vehicle. However, he would lose them in an intersection, unfortunately.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And a few days later, he would inform the police
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that he had found the same truck parked outside a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: house less than half a mile away. And the property
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: belonged to Gary Ridgway. And when questioned by authorities, Ridgway
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: denied any involvement in Marie's disappearance. And the police found
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: no reason to pursue the matter further, unfortunately. And it
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't until 2003, nearly 30 years later, that Marie's remains
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: were discovered in the ravine off 65th Avenue South in Auburn.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And to this day, these next four women who Gary
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: admitted to killing still remain missing. And that is Casey
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Ann Lee, who was only 16 years old. And next
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: was Becky Marrero, who was only aged 19. And she
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: would also disappear December 3rd, 1982 off Pacific Highway. And
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: next was Kelly K. McGinnis. Kelly was last seen on
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: June 28th, 1983, standing beside a street in the area
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: of the Three Bears Motel on Pacific Highway South. And
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: he claimed to had killed her, but either refused to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: tell or forgot where he hid the body because he
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: had hid so many at this point. And lastly, there
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was Patricia Ann Osborne, who on January 24th, 1983, had
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: relatives report that she was missing. And a little later
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: that year, from September to December of 1983, more women
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: went missing and seven bodies were discovered, all who were
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: believed to have been abducted and murdered. And they would
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: all be later identified as victims of Gary Ridgeway. And
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it's just crazy to believe that Gary Ridgeway was able
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: to get away with this many murders. And while in custody,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: he even admitted to killing and abducting a woman with
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: his own son in the car.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: On July 18th, I think it was my brother's birthday,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: that weekend I picked up a woman on Pack Highway
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: and Matthew was next to me in the seat and
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: she hopped in and I took her over to in
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: the south airport area and took her into an area
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: and my son was there and I killed her. I'm
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: real sure my son didn't see it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: But thankfully, his reign of terror wouldn't last much longer
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: thanks to advancements in technology that would expose his true
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: identity to investigators. So like I said before, on April 30th, 1983,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Ridgeway did become a suspect for a little bit, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: that was after the murder of Marie Malver and the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: boyfriend identifying him and his truck, and the police went
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to go question him, but he said he didn't know
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: anything about it and police would leave. But in November,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: police again would speak to him about the murders and
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he would deny any knowledge of the victims again, and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: authorities lacked any evidence to connect him to any of
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the crimes. And in 2003, after Ridgway was already arrested,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: he would actually tell investigators that he stood against offense
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: during his original 1983 questioning to conceal scratches that Malver
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: had left on his arm while trying to escape. which
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: is so sick and scary. Ridgway would then say that
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: he burned the scratches with battery acid to describe them
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: once detectives had left. So Ridgway is a suspect at
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: this point and has been questioned multiple times. And he
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: would be the last person seen with evidence two of
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: his victims. So when police eventually searched his house and vehicles,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: he eventually provided police with a saliva sample in 1987. However,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the technology at the time wasn't good enough to nail
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the deaths on him necessarily. So he walked a free
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: man for many, many years. And it wasn't until March
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: of 2001 that new techniques in forensic testing became available.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And investigators reopened the case and examined all the evidence
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that they had collected over many years. Over many, many,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: many years. And the new tests were known as polymerase
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: chain reaction, otherwise known as PCR tests. And the short
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: tandem repeat, otherwise known as STR tests. And these tests
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: allowed scientists to sequence and copy short fragments of DNA
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: taken from the crime scenes. From rinsing fingernails to swabbing
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: ligatures for the strangulation device from the ropes and cables.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: And eventually they were looking so deep that they were
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: able to find a few sperm cells and some pubic hairs. Gross.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: And the teams had created DNA profiles and three different victims,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: where they compared that DNA to a piece of gauze
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that Ridgway had chewed on all the way back in 1987,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: which is crazy. Like, thank God for technology. And the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: DNA matched. Meaning Gary Ridgway was their murderer and they
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: had all the evidence that they needed. So on November 30th, 2001,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: they finally got the bitch and he was charged for
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the murders of Cynthia Jean Hinz, Marcia Faye Chapman, and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Opal Charmaine Mills, and Carol Ann Christensen. Nearly two decades
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: after the first murder, the King County Sheriff announced the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: public that the Green River Killer had been caught. And
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: after the arrest in 2001, it wasn't looking good for
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: little poor Gary. Womp womp, big fucking whoop. And he
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: was charged again with three more murders, that of Wendy
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Lee Caulfield, Deborah Lynn Bonner, and Deborah Estes. And the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: charges were building against him more and more. However, in
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: June 2003, he was willing to make a deal. because
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: he's a slimy little bitch. A plea deal would begin
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: in exchange for the prosecutor not giving him the death
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: penalty because he's a narcissistic piece of shit. And he
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: would be willing to plead guilty to all the murders
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: that he had committed in King County. And this would
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: include full truth and all information, answering any questions detective
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: had in interviews with prosecuting attorneys, questions answered as well.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: And on November 5th, 2003, he entered that guilty plea
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: deal of 48 charges of aggravated first degree murder. 48.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, it's fucking crazy. And in his own statement,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: he said, quote unquote, I killed so many women, I
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: have a hard time keeping them straight. And he explained
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: that he never knew the victims, not even their names. However,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: he is positive that he killed all of them. The
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: majority in his house and a bunch of them in
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: his truck as well. And his motive? Well, he explained
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that he wanted to kill as many of them he
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: thought were ladies of the night as possible. He hated
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: them because he never wanted to pay for intercourse. And
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: since they were so easy to pick up, a lot
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: of them weren't reported anyway. So he basically just treated
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: them like actual trash. Little did he know, He was
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the trash. And he would steal their jewelry and clothes
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to make them harder to identify. Putting their bodies in
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: clusters or groups so he could keep track of all
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the people that he did kill. And he liked to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: drive past them to remember as sort of a landmark.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And the rest of the documents had him going one
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: by one explaining the women that was killed, their locations, name,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and where he placed them. Slating he was guilty for each.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: How do you plead to the charge of aggravated murder
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: in the first degree as charged in count 47 for
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: the death of Patricia Yellow Robe?
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Guilty.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: How do you plead to the charge of aggravated murder
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: in the first degree as charged in count 48 for
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: the death of an unidentified person known as Jane Doe B20?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Guilty. And he obviously couldn't remember all the murders, and
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: it had to be from detectives' investigations that he could remember.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: And the court states that they know that he spent
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: time with law enforcement to provide all the details of
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the murders that took place. And they asked him if
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: he felt pressured to admit information from intimidation. To which
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: he states, no. And this meant he was very compliant
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: and knew the gravity of the situation in the obvious
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: hopes of not receiving the death penalty. And on December 18th, 2003,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: he was finally sentenced, receiving 48 consecutive life sentences, which,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: what's 48 times 12? Wait, 12, he's just rotting, he rotted.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: He's rotting like the little rat he is. And they
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: actually let the victim's families and friends talk to him,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: giving their testimony to finally get their peace. Speaking to
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: the murderer who caused them so, so much pain and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: their family members so, so much pain. And a majority
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: of the time, he just sat there like the piece
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: of shit he is with a stone cold face while
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the victim's families talked about how they hope he rots
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: in hell. Hell yeah. And he suffers a painful and
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: long death that... Yes, absolutely. But he finally was brought
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: up to speak in front of everyone, apologizing to the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: families for everything that he had done, realizing all the
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: victims could have lived long and very happy and fulfilling lives.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: And the judge of the case was actually interviewed and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: talked about the families talking to him, thanking him for
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: bringing their family peace. And they also sent him letters
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: continuously just because of the huge impact that he made
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: on their lives. The judge, nuts. He would be charged
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: again with a 49th murder on February 18th, 2011. And
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: he admitted to the murder of Rebecca Romero in 2003. However,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: there wasn't enough evidence to actually charge him on that
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: account until nearly eight years later. And it was just
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: a way to rub salt into the already 48 life
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: sentences wound. But as time goes on, more and more
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: victims are still identified. Just in December of 2023, police
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: identified another one of his victims, which was known as
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Bones 17, known as Laurie Ann Raspotnik. So the fact
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: that the story just isn't over shows the insane impact
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: this insane serial killer has left behind. But his story
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: behind bars seems to be a relatively boring one. But
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: to this day, he will rot in his cell and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: his health slowly deteriorates and he is stuck with the
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: idea that one day he will die in those concrete
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: walls and behind those metal bars like the piece of
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: shit he is. Perhaps the most shocking part of the
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: story isn't the sheer number of murders that Gary had perpetrated.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: over the decades, but that nobody in Gary's life suspected
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: him of being the monster that he was.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: We discussed how Gary was married three separate times, and
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: the fact that he convinced three women he was normal
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: and to.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Marry him and share a home and.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: And have kids with him is beyond me. But of
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: course his home life wasn't perfect, given he had divorced
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: two of his wives. But Judy, his final partner, had
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: absolute faith in the man she had spent the better
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: part of two decades with. She described their 17 year
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: marriage as a happy one and had maintained her husband's
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: innocence for quite some time, even after he was arrested
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and he was confessing. So she was just, fully Delulu.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's the definition of Delulu. And Judy would
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: even say that Gary was the best thing that ever
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: happened to her and even reminisce about camping trips the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: two had taken. Weekends together, shopping, gardening, and spending time
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: with family, all of which were probably around the burial
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: sites of the 49, potentially 70-ish women that he had murdered.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: But beyond convincing his wife, Judy, that he was a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: good family man for so long, Gary also played the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: role of a loving and supportive father to his son,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Matthew Ridgway. And Matthew was born to Gary's second wife, Claudia.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: And in 2021, Matthew, who was now 28 at the time,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: talked about his memory of his father. To Matthew, Gary
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: was a relaxed man who never yelled. He took his
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: son camping, taught him how to play baseball, and also
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: showed up for school concerts and soccer practices. He described
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: his dad as somebody that was always there for him,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and he would never remember Gary not being around. So yeah,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know. He was somehow was a good dad,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I guess. I don't know. I don't know. How did
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: he do all that? I just don't understand. There had
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: to be like 12 of him. To like murder all
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: these people and then also be there for the kid
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: and also maintain a marriage. I don't know. And Matthew
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: at the time, he was in fourth or fifth grade
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: when his father got arrested. And Matthew never believed he
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: could have been guilty of these crimes at the time.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: He was just one of 500 possible suspects at the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: time and it just couldn't be him. And Matthew never
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: knew that he was used by his father to lure
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: women to their deaths. Thieves. The family man facade was
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a tool in Gary's toolbox to reassure women. He would
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: ease potential victims' worries when picking them up in his
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: truck by showing that he was a father. And when
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the women got in his vehicle and asked to see
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: his ID and a photo of his son next to
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: his license, they were much calmer. And on the top
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: of his license photo, there were often toys that belonged
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: to his son in his truck and on his dashboard.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: So the women would see further proof that he was
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: just a family man And there was nothing to be
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: afraid of when in fact he was a fucking psycho killer.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: But Gary's ability to maintain this double life is just
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: a chilling reminder of how easily darkness can hide in
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: plain sight. He manipulated his family and those around him,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: drawing on their trust and predictability of his normal life.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: His wives and son and co-workers had no idea they
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: were living alongside this absolutely brutal psycho monster. And since
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: his incarceration for the many killings he committed over the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: several decades, it gained him infamy as one of the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: country's deadliest convicted serial killers. And he's influenced all forms
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: of pop culture. From art to film to print, he's
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: been immortalized. That's why I like to just reiterate a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: thousand times that he is a giant piece of shit.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: And I hate him. So, but a guy named Phil
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Hansen created a piece of art of Gary's face using
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: portraits of his victims. He used a total of 11,792
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: images to construct it, which is interesting. And given his
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: prolific nature, Gary has been the subject of many documentaries
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: and films and docu-series episodes. A crime documentary, Murder, No
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Apparent Motive, from 1984, discussed the killings in the Sea-Tac area,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: being indicative of a serial killing operated in the area.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: He was even on Unsolved Mysteries, and he was in
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the Netflix release to show Catching Killers in 2021. And
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: the very first episode of season one is dedicated to
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the Green River Killer, a.k.a. Gary Ridgeway. And those might
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: just be the most recent covers of Gary Ridgeway, but
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: there has been many, many more throughout history. Not to
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: mention books as well. The Search for the Green River Killer,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: The River Man, Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Green River Killer, which also Ted Bundy was asked about
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: how to find the Green River Killer. And Ted did
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: say that they should be looking for a guy that's
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: going to keep coming back to the sites where the
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: women were, because that is what Ted Bundy did. What
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: do you know? And a grunge brand from the 80s
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: also named themselves Green River after the serial killer with
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: a song called Come On Down, having the lyrics about
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the killings in the river from Gary's point of view.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: And it's, the river runs shallow, the river goes deep,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the river calls in your sleep. Dig this baby, now
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: dig this hole, your body's so warm, the river's so
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: cold you're the one i want to hold i want
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: to throw up after reading that personally but it begs
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the question as well is that like how many other
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: victims are out there because by by what we're seeing
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: of how many victims he had and how many victims
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: he's confessed to, I'm sure that there's more, which is
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: just heartbreaking. And the fact remains that despite the most
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: famous serial killers being the ones that have been caught
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: and documented, there are believed to be many still active
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: around the world at any given time. And I am
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: so aware of that. The FBI actually estimates that there
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: is around 25 to 50 active in the US alone.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: And some within the FBI believe that multiple operate as
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: long haul truck drivers, which In history, we have seen
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: that that is very, very common. But until next time,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: let me know what other serial killers, cults, conspiracies you
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: guys want me to cover down below. I know I
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: mentioned Ed Kemper. If you want me to do that,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: let me know. But until next time, I will see
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: your beautiful face in the next video. Okay, bye.